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In our installation of Fogbugz, we have a long list of projects (and it's been growing). The projects are easily split up between teams. So most developers only really care about the couple projects his team is working on. It would be nice to be able to have another level of hierarchy above "Project" that would allow the projects to be sorted and more easily according to each functional group (acting similar to the "Project"/"Area" relationship).

One of our users actually wrote a plugin that implements this feature. It needed to be a little hacky though to get the new drop-down menu to display in the right spot (left of the "Project" drop-down). The other problem is maintainability. Our plugin has to be fixed over and over as Fogbugz grows and changes from release to release. It might be nice to add support for gui manipulation to the api if you can't add this kind of functionality as a core feature.

What we have right now is a new "Organization" drop-down that filters the next "Project" drop-down (only displays projects in the selected organization). The "Project drop-down then filters the "Area" drop-down as it does in the normal installation.

Fog Creek Case FC2010577

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I just tried to vote and I got an message box saying something to the effect that it won't matter unless it is edited because it is too old. I am going to create a new case and link back to this issue, I hope that that is appropriate. – Brian Gerrity Nov 21 2010 at 14:50
The message must have said that your vote was too old, not the post. If the up arrow was already darkened, your vote is logged. – adambox♦ Dec 10 2010 at 21:33

closed as no longer relevant by Rich Armstrong♦♦ Sep 19 at 17:00

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FogBugz 8.4.87 and later

You can use the Project Groups Plugin to categorize projects and filter and search by the groups. Install it via Admin -> Plugins

FogBugz 7.3

A customer has written a plugin to fulfill this need. In addition to filtering and searching, it provides a drop-down in case editing that lets you select a group. When you choose one, it then updates the project menu to show only those projects. It is available in the gallery here, but has not been tested by Fog Creek. Buyer beware, etc.

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Unfortunately no. Many teams feed into each other so they need to be able to create cases cross-functionally. With our plugin it is nice to be able to select the top level (which team) you want, then have the project drop down populated with all projects under that team. It makes it much easier and cleaner to use. – Mike Caron Jul 27 2010 at 21:19
I'm the only user and I didn't see groups in the filter list. For now I'll be using Tags. – CADbloke Aug 18 2010 at 0:21
@Cadbloke are you on FogBugz 8 beta? Groups have changed from mapping directly to Projects to being simple reusable lists of users you can assign permissions to in Projects – adambox♦ Aug 18 2010 at 13:52
Any news on this? We have been using 'groups' (originally 'clients' in fb6) to group together projects for a common customer, and the loss of this functionality really hurts us. A plug-in solution would be great, but restoring the original Clients/Groups feature would be even better. As an aside, while we are really happy with Fogbugz, I can't understand the logic behind removing a feature like this. If I did that my customers would scream at me. :) At least you could have created a plug-in to keep the original functionality for those who want it, while removing it from the main product. – JLathem Oct 6 2010 at 20:15
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 We just released a plugin which brings back the ability to filter and search by groups of projects. Please take a look and let us know if it meets your needs. blog.fogcreek.com/… – adambox♦ Jun 21 at 17:58
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@adambox: I'd like to up-vote the original question, as you suggest, since the lack of groups in FB8 also strongly affects our company processes.

But since I've not been using the forum for some years (Last time I used it, it was not working on stackoverflow.com engine), I have no reputation neither to up-vote nor to leace a comment. I'd prefer some other way for licesnsed FogBugz users to vote for features - other than just achieving reputation in discussion forum.

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We just released a plugin which brings back the ability to filter and search by groups of projects. Please take a look and let us know if it meets your needs. blog.fogcreek.com/… – adambox♦ Jun 21 at 17:55
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+1 for this feature request.

I wish I have enough reputation here (or to be able to use my StackOverflow account reputation) to vote for this feature request. We used to use Departments/Groups in FB7 for project organization and reporting. After upgrade to FB8 our reports (especially for newly created projects) are broken.

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 We just released a plugin which brings back the ability to filter and search by groups of projects. Please take a look and let us know if it meets your needs. blog.fogcreek.com/… – adambox♦ Jun 21 at 17:55
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Here's an alternative to my previous answer. It kinda builds on it. When I name the projects with a prefix-suffix convention like Group-Project, all I need to do now is, in the List-Cases filter, search for Project:Group and I get every project in that group. then I break it up by project, etc..

Easier, no messing about with tags.

I left my other answer there in case it helps someone. This method is more straightforward for me though - I keep forgetting to add the tags.

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This could backfire quite comprehensively if you want to link Kiln repos to Fogbugz projects, particularly if you want all of the projects bundled into one repo. In this case the tags approach (my other answer here) may be better for you. – CADbloke Sep 7 2010 at 21:29
See kiln.stackexchange.com/questions/1273/… about linking Kiln repos to Fogbugz on demand projects – CADbloke Sep 7 2010 at 21:41
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 We just released a plugin which brings back the ability to filter and search by groups of projects. Please take a look and let us know if it meets your needs. blog.fogcreek.com/… – adambox♦ Jun 21 at 17:57
@Adam - I saw this come through my RSS reader. Yes, that is exactly what I was looking for. Excellent! Thanks. Sorry about the delay - my 5 week-old daughter has commandeered all of my spare time. – CADbloke Jun 29 at 20:36
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I have tried the plugin mentioned above and it does have some problems, as we were warned about, but moreover for my company it doesn't really accomplish what we are looking for. It creates a one-to-many relationship between organization and project, what I would like to see is a many-to-many relationship.

For example we have multiple web applications that are used by many other organizations, and this is where it breaks down. What I want is to be able to associate Company A and Company B to Project C, but Company A is also involved with Project D.

Ultimately what I want to be able to do is run off a list of all cases for Company A (this will include Project C & D) and another list of cases for Project C (this will include cases reported by/pertaining to Companies A & B).

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We just released a plugin which brings back the ability to filter and search by groups of projects. Please take a look and let us know if it meets your needs. blog.fogcreek.com/… – adambox♦ Jun 21 at 17:57
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+1 for this feature request.

I'd like to be able to search by groups that I used for security. I'd use another field as well but I'd like to be able to filter by it, same as Project, user, priority, etc.

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We just released a plugin which brings back the ability to filter and search by groups of projects. Please take a look and let us know if it meets your needs. blog.fogcreek.com/… – adambox♦ Jun 21 at 17:57

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